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Remembering Michiganians who died in 2013

2013 in Review

• Harold R. Varner, whose architecture company, Varner & Associates, designed the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and other metro Detroit buildings, died Dec. 14. He was 78.

• Dwayne X. Riley, longtime Detroit broadcaster and a 35-year veteran of Channel 4, died Dec. 4. He was 84.

• Suzanne Rabideau, a former Detroit News reporter who later operated a PR consultancy, died Nov. 26. She was 69.

• Robert E. McCabe, former Detroit Renaissance Inc. president, died Nov. 10. He was 89.

• Barbara Morley Erb, who with her husband, Fred Erb of Erb Lumber Co., established the Birmingham-based Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation, died Nov. 8. She was 89. Fred Erb died Jan. 10. He was 90.

• Paul Buscemi, founder of the Roseville-based Original Buscemi's Inc. party store pizza franchise business, died Nov. 7. He was 89.

• Willie Lipscomb Jr., a retired 36th District Court judge and former Detroit mayoral candidate, was found dead Nov. 6. He was 70.

• Alfred Warren Jr., former General Motors vice president of industrial relations, died Oct. 11. He was 87.

• David Allard, co-founder of the Detroit-based law firm Allard & Fish PC, died Oct. 6. He was 65.

• Margaret Culpepper, who co-founded White Glove Professional Cleaning and the Collective shops in Detroit's Indian Village neighborhood, died Oct. 5. She was 65.

• William Hoey III, who as owner and operator of Diamond Jack's River Tours and Gaelic Tugboat Co. led ferryboat tours along the Detroit River, died Sept. 28. He was 75.

• Gates Brown, a Detroit Tigers player and coach best known for his pinch-hitting heroics for the 1968 World Series champions, died Sept. 27. He was 74.

• Robert Larson, former president and general manager of WTVS-Channel 56, died Sept. 13. He was 83.

• Richard Elsea, chairman and COO of Southfield-based Real Estate One Inc., died Sept. 10. He was 83.